Hubris Quotes

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there is the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, … he’s sure he can control the demon. But it doesn’t work out.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

Nemesis follows hubris.

It is sort of a disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.

A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

The higher up, the harder the fall.

When men are most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Two sentiments inherent in power never fail to produce this moral corruption; they are: contempt for the masses and the overestimation of one's own merits.

I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes

The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.

Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith)

Unbridled arrogance is worse than pride; for if pride will not break a superior, arrogance will not brook and equal.

The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.

The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.

My generals are always right about other people’s wars and wrong about our own.

All great nations inevitably end up committing suicide.

You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in?

Despair ruins some, presumption many.

The white race were a land-loving people, and had a right to possess it because they used it according to the intentions of the Creator.